HIGHLIGHTS
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY
Beauty Slap performed original material in front of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as a featured guest ensemble during their FUZE series.
INDY 500 2017, 2018
Beauty Slap performed in the center of the racetrack as drivers were announced at the 2017 Indy 500, and will play an extended set there this year for the 250,000 projected to attend.
TEACHING RESIDENCIES
Beauty Slap has enjoyed teaching residencies in Steamboat Springs CO, San Francisco State University, the University of South Carolina, and more.
TESTIMONIALS
SOUTH CAROLINA FREE TIMES
"Call it two turntables and a bass trombone: Pittsburgh’s Beauty Slap bridges ivory-tower music school pedagogy and new-school laptop tweaking techniques to create some seriously funky vibes...a bold big-band brass sound, which is then mixed and manipulated by Ableton wizard Jake Berntsen into sweltering EDM."
PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER
"The band has become known in Pittsburgh for introducing funk back to its college-age following by combining it with the dance-style music that populates the charts...the group formed quickly because the musicians found something that they could all connect with in the music. The passion that they exude onstage is palpable."
PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
"I shed my self-consciousness and allowed myself to be immersed in the toe-tappingly good beats facilitated by Mr. Berntsen and enhanced by the instrumentalists, with most songs connected in one seamless presentation...Beauty Slap’s approach made for a dynamic concert experience unlike anything I’d attended before.
biography
This is a future-brass-thunder-funk machine. Four horns, computer, and keys.
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The thunderously funky screams of a traditional brass quartet meet the heaviest grooves modern dance music has to offer.
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The mission is to make you move.
Since forming in Pittsburgh, Beauty Slap has enjoyed national attention surrounding their debut project THUNDERFUNK MACHINE and northeastern tours. Armed with their powerfully groovy live show and impending album release, the group is poised for complete world domination.